1. WORLD WAR II
A timeline

2. 1939 Nazis take Czechoslovakia Nazis sign Pact of Steel with Italy
Nazis sign Non-Aggression pact with USSR
Nazis invade Poland
Britain, France, Australia and New Zealand declare war on Germany

3. 1940
Nazis invade Denmark, Norway, France, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands
Battle of Britain, German Blitz against England begins
Italy invades Egypt
Tripartite Pact signed
Italy invades Greece
Britain begins desert offensive in North Africa

4. 1941 British troops invade Italian Somaliland
German Afrika Korps arrive in North Africa
Germans continue bombing London
Germany attacks Soviet Union
Nazi SS begins mass murder
Germany abandons attack on Moscow
Japan bombs Pearl Harbor

5. 1942 First American troops arrive in England
Japanese-Americans put into internment camps
Rommel and the Afrika Korps reach El Alamein, Egypt
Germans resume attack on USSR and advance toward Stalingrad
Rommel withdraws from Egypt

6. 1943 Soviets repel attack on Stalingrad and begin counter-offensive
Allies take Tunisia, German and Italian troops in North Africa surrender
Allies land in Sicily
Italy surrenders and Mussolini is arrested.
Germans occupy Rome and rescue Mussolini
Allies enter Naples, Italy

7. 1944 Soviet troops advance into Poland Allies enter Rome
D-Day landings begin
First German V-1 rocket attacks on Britain
Soviets enter Romania
Paris liberated
Allies cross Siegfried Line

8. 1945 Soviet troops capture Warsaw and liberate Auschwitz
Allies take Cologne and bridge the Rhine
Soviets reach Berlin
Hitler commits suicide
Unconditional German surrender (VE Day)
Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Unconditional Japanese surrender (VJ Day)